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Happy hump day. It’s time to talk about what you are going to do to celebrate this momentous occasion. Oh yeah, it’s a big deal to make it half way through a week, and you deserve to celebrate. How about getting out to see some great new music tonight in Nashville? The Balkans are…
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What does a music blog write about today? Apparently, everything that you care about happened last night during the the MTV Video Music Awards. Not interested, thanks. Instead, let’s talk about getting out to see something different tonight in Nashville. Since forming in 1997, Lawrence, KS based band, The Appleseed Cast has morphed from…
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Nashville’s version of the famed Austin music festival South by SouthWest (SXSW) is right around the corner. While on a smaller scale, the 4 day, 11 venue, 100 artist festival will take Nashville by storm starting on September 21st with a kickoff performance by Jonny Corndawg, Dawes, and M. Ward at the War Memorial…
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Tonight in Nashville… Smoke Fairies is a two piece British folk and blues band consisting of Katherine Blamire and Jessica Davies. The gals met in the late 90’s and began playing and exploring music in Europe and North America. The duo began recording in 2007 with the release of the single “Living With Ghosts”. …
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…. in preparation for the upcoming, sold out two night stint at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium on October 1st and 2nd, you should check out this leaked track “Dawned On Me”. It was performed acoustic by Tweedy in Saint Louis’ Peabody Opera House, and is presented by St. Louis Magazine. It’s worth checking out along…
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I’ve been AWOL for the past three days. I know, I missed you too. I escaped the Tennessee heat for a little time in San Francisco to check out some bands at the Outside Lands festival (thanks a lot to the folks over at Superfly Presents for making it possible). Outside Lands is set…
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Whoop, whoop…. It’s Friday night! What are you gonna do tonight? How about some live music? I know shocking that you would hear that coming from us, but, seriously, did you have better plans? What if you went down to see a couple of up and coming Nashville musicians? Not a bad idea, huh? …
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How did one of my favorite bands slip onto a calendar without me knowing. I scour calendars, blogs, websites, and twitter all day long looking for bands to get excited about, and somehow I missed this announcement?!? Blitzen Trapper is coheadlining with Dawes and opener The Smoke Fairies at Nashville’s Mercy Lounge on October…
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The good folks over at We Own This Town have released a mixtape (volume 46) of Nashville bands that are worth listening to right now. You can download it for free, so head over to their webpage to check it out. Nice job, guys! A listing of the bands, tracks, album, and upcoming shows…
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According to a message from Turbo Fruits, the August 13th (or was that August 14th?) free music fest/party on Free Beer Island has been cancelled. Nashville Cream concurs. I’ll keep an eye out for other updates. I wonder what happens if you already bought that ferry ticket?